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>The more people, the more scaling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects#Wright's_law_unit_cost_curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experienc
by kken 4y ago
>The more people, the more scaling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects#Wright's_law_unit_cost_curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects#Wrigh...
This is what brought us scientific and engineering progress.
The problem is, of course, that growing inequality stalls these mechanisms.
- __alexs 4y agoThis is what bought us the rate of progress we've become accustomed too. Why should we want it to be faster?
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoBecause we're going to to have to science and engineer our way out of the climate change hole that's been dug.
- __alexs 4y agoWe already have the technology to do that. We just don't have the political will to do it.
- skeeter2020 4y agoOh the hubris, to think that it has anything to do with what the individual wants! Humans are unique in their belief that we master the universe and conform everything to our desires.
- daniel-cussen 4y agoThe last 500 years's scientific progress is much less impressive when you adjust for the number of people it took to make all that progress.